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Kevin Costner, America's Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner's oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costner's works.
List of contents
Contents
Foreword
Andrew Grunzke
Introduction
Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak
Part I: Kevin Costner and America's Game
Chapter One: Candlesticks Make a Nice Gift: The Baseball Films of Kevin Costner
Cathy Leogrande
Chapter Two: Heaven or Iowa? Field of Dreams and Public Understanding of America's Pastime
Bradley Hart and Dennis Hart
Part II: Kevin Costner and Sex, Gender, and the New West
Chapter Three: Black Women's Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Chapter Four: Performing the Rugged Patriarch: Yellowstone's Commemoration of the American Monomyth
Chandra Maldonado and Ashley A. Mattheis
Chapter Five: "This is America. We Don't Share Land Here." Kevin Costner, Taylor Sheridan, and Remediating New/Post-West(ern) Scholarship in Yellowstone
Stefan Rabitsch and Pawel Pyrka
Part III: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Kevin Costner
Chapter Six: Kevin Costner the Wise Teacher: Thirteen Days and Four Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis
William Gombash
Chapter Seven: Intentional Focus on Integrated STEM: Was Costner the Original STEM Influencer?
Andrea Burrows, Michelle Chamberlain, and Mike Borowczak
Chapter Eight: Resilience and Asset Framing: The Lessons of McFarland, USA
Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak
Afterword: "Playing the Hand You've Been Dealt": Lessons in Leadership the Post-COVID
Educational Frontier
Jerry Ausburn and Edward Janak
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak - Contributions by Jerry Ausburn; Mike Borowczak; Andrea C. Burrows; Michelle Chamberlin; William Gombash; Andrew Grunzke; Bradley W. Hart; Dennis R. Hart; Ludovic A. Sourdot; Edward Janak; Tatiana Konrad; Cat
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Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner's oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costner’s works.
